Other Rust Installation Methods

Which installer should you use?

Rust runs on many platforms, and there are many ways to install Rust. If you
want to install Rust in the most straightforward, recommended way, then follow
the instructions on the main installation page.

That page describes installation via rustup, a tool that manages multiple
Rust toolchains in a consistent way across all platforms Rust supports. Why
might one not want to install using those instructions?

Offline installation. rustup downloads components from the internet on
demand. If you need to install Rust without access to the internet, rustup
is not suitable.

Preference for the system package manager. On Linux in particular, but also on
macOS with Homebrew, and Windows with Chocolatey, developers sometimes
prefer to install Rust with their platform’s package manager.

Preference against curl | sh. On Unix, we usually install rustup by
running a shell script via curl. Some have concerns about the security of
this arrangement and would prefer to download and run the installer
themselves.

Validating signatures. Although rustup performs its downloads over HTTPS,
the only way to verify the signatures of Rust installers today is to do so
manually with the standalone installers.

GUI installation and integration with “Add/Remove Programs” on
Windows. rustup runs in the console and does not register its installation
like typical Windows programs. If you prefer a more typical GUI installation
on Windows there are standalone .msi installers. In the future
rustup will also have a GUI installer on Windows.

Rust’s platform support is defined in three tiers, which correspond closely
with the installation methods available: in general, the Rust project provides
binary builds for all tier 1 and tier 2 platforms, and they are all installable
via rustup. Some tier 2 platforms though have only the standard library
available, not the compiler itself; that is, they are cross-compilation targets
only; Rust code can run on those platforms, but they do not run the compiler
itself. Such targets can be installed with the rustup target add command.

Other ways to install rustup

The way to install rustup differs by platform:

On Unix, run curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh in your
shell. This downloads and runs rustup-init.sh, which in turn
downloads and runs the correct version of the rustup-init
executable for your platform.

rustup-init can be configured interactively, and all options can additionally
be controlled by command-line arguments, which can be passed through the shell
script. Pass --help to rustup-init as follows to display the arguments
rustup-init accepts:

curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh -s -- --help

If you prefer not to use the shell script, you may directly download
rustup-init for the platform of your choice:

Standalone installers

The official Rust standalone installers contain a single release of Rust, and
are suitable for offline installation. They come in three forms: tarballs
(extension .tar.gz), that work in any Unix-like environment, Windows
installers (.msi), and Mac installers (.pkg). These installers come with
rustc, cargo, rustdoc, the standard library, and the standard
documentation, but do not provide access to additional cross-targets like
rustup does.